When it was announced that Lady Gaga was going to be performing the David Bowie tribute at the 2016 Grammys, I was optimistic. Now, I am not a fan of Lady Gaga per se. But I think she is immensely talented, and a real artist. I like her attitude. I like that she hired Clarence…

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Etsy is our virtual street fair, our virtual swap meet, our version of the dudes hitting you up to buy their cheap repro t-shirts as you walk out of the concert. Of course, there would be an influx of items to purchase “in tribute” of David Bowie on Etsy within a few minutes of the…

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Bruce Springsteen fans are rejoicing over the release of the new deluxe box set for The River because it includes long rumored professional footage of the band playing live in Tempe in 1980. Although much mainstream discussion of the show focuses on Springsteen’s comments regarding the election of Ronald Reagan the night before, Tempe was…

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When David Bowie released the Let’s Dance album, there were a lot of reasons to be excited, but at the top of the list was the idea of seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan–the project’s biggest surprise–playing onstage with Bowie. Of course that never happened, because Vaughan either quit or was fired right before the tour started…

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Brian Fallon and the Crowes (Gaslight’s Alex Rosamilia on keys and guitar, the Horrible Crowes’ Ian Perkins on guitar, the Scandals’ Jared Hart on another guitar, the inimitable Cat Popper on bass and some guy on drums whose name I did not get) played the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York Friday night on the…

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” in 1971, as an extension of their anti-war billboard campaign of 1969, which declared WAR IS OVER (If you want it). John started writing the song not long after they moved to New York, and grabbed Phil Spector and went into the Record Plant…

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Somehow, (chef) Harold Moore hooked up with the lamented CBGB and will serve ‘American fare in a fun environment recalling the legendary music venue.’1 CBGB’s, the venerable rock and roll club on the Bowery, was a lot of things. It was the birthplace of punk rock. It was the place where important bands built their…

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My junior year of college, I shared a ‘suite’ with another girl named Karen. She moved in wearing black nail polish and exclaimed with joy over my milk crates of records. I remember her most for her great term she used for the general crap on the radio at that time: “BostonKansasForeignerJourneyStyx,” was what she…

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band appear on the season finale of Saturday Night Live this week, to promote the release of the 35th anniversary box set of The River, and Springsteen will also be joining Jimmy Fallon on the couch later this evening on The Tonight Show, Mainstream network television appearances were not something Bruce…

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It took Bruce Springsteen 14 months to make Born To Run. It took him 10 months to make Darkness On The Edge of Town, and that was without the year-long break in the middle where he was trapped in a lawsuit and wasn’t allowed to record a new record. This is why Springsteen deliberately tried…